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Lord Peter Wimsey Books In Order (Full List)
Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of 15 books by Dorothy L. Sayers. The first book published in the series is Whose Body? in 1923. Here is a complete list of Lord Peter Wimsey books in order.
Last update: October 18, 2026
1. Whose Body? (1923)
The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries.
- 📇 224 Pages
- 📝 56,000 - 67,200 Word Count
- ⏱️ 7 Hours Reading Time
2. Clouds of Witness (1926)
The evidence points to their older brother, Gerald, the Duke of Denver, who is charged with the murder and put on trial in the House of Lords.
- 📇 279 Pages
- 📝 69,750 - 83,700 Word Count
- ⏱️ 9 Hours Reading Time
3. Unnatural Death (1927)
Unnatural Death, published in 1927, is the third novel written by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring her aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
- 📇 288 Pages
- 📝 72,000 - 86,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 10 Hours Reading Time
4. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
On Armistice day, an elderly gentleman is found dead in his chair at his club. The death seems natural enough, but a tricky question of inheritance leads Lord Peter to try to pin the time down more exactly.
- 📇 256 Pages
- 📝 64,000 - 76,800 Word Count
- ⏱️ 9 Hours Reading Time
5. Strong Poison (1930)
Harriet is introduced as she stands in the dock on trial for murder. This is the first in the Lord Peter Wimsey series of stories that includes Harriet Vane.
- 📇 259 Pages
- 📝 64,750 - 77,700 Word Count
- ⏱️ 9 Hours Reading Time
6. Five Red Herrings (1931)
Lord Peter Wimsey is trying to find the murderer of a local artists.
- 📇 368 Pages
- 📝 92,000 - 110,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 12 Hours Reading Time
7. Have His Carcase (1932)
When Harriet Vane finds a dead body on the beach Only one person can help her discover how the poor man died at the beach: Lord Peter, the amateur sleuth who won her freedom and her heart in one fell swoop.
- 📇 448 Pages
- 📝 112,000 - 134,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 15 Hours Reading Time
8. Murder Must Advertise (1933)
When a man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident.
- 📇 368 Pages
- 📝 92,000 - 110,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 12 Hours Reading Time
9. The Nine Tailors (1934)
When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave.
- 📇 397 Pages
- 📝 99,250 - 119,100 Word Count
- ⏱️ 13 Hours Reading Time
10. Gaudy Night (1935)
Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college.
- 📇 512 Pages
- 📝 128,000 - 153,600 Word Count
- ⏱️ 17 Hours Reading Time
11. Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her).
- 📇 403 Pages
- 📝 100,750 - 120,900 Word Count
- ⏱️ 13 Hours Reading Time
12. Thrones, Dominations (1998)
The wife of a wealthy man is found dead.
- 📇 312 Pages
- 📝 78,000 - 93,600 Word Count
- ⏱️ 10 Hours Reading Time
13. A Presumption of Death (2002)
Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers.
- 📇 384 Pages
- 📝 96,000 - 115,200 Word Count
- ⏱️ 13 Hours Reading Time
14. The Attenbury Emeralds (2010)
The long-awaited new Lord Peter Wimsey novel, telling the story of his first case and his last.
- 📇 368 Pages
- 📝 92,000 - 110,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 12 Hours Reading Time
15. The Late Scholar (2013)
The dispute turns out to be even worse than they had thought, with attempts (some successful) to murder some of the Fellows.
- 📇 368 Pages
- 📝 92,000 - 110,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 12 Hours Reading Time